Button-hole strip



(No Model;) I

H. W. LYON.

BUTTON HOLE STRIP. No. 401,359. Patented Apr. 16, 1889.

. 4 4 Q 1 5 2 i I 3 I 1 1 I Q 1 I 1 1 l UNITED STATES PATENT HENRY WI LYON, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

BUTTON-HOLE STRIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 401,359, dated. April 16, 1889.

Application filed January 1'7, 1889.

. full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to button-holes such as are formed in strips for use in corsets or similar garments, and is designed as an improvement on the construction shown and described in my pending application, filed December 26, 1888, under Serial No. 294,G96,with a view to facilitating the assembly of the parts which go to make up the button-holes.

With these ends in view my invention consists in the peculiar construction and combination of parts, such as will be hereinafter set forth, and then specifically designated by the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of the button-hole body-strip; Fig. 2, a detail of one of the edge-binders Fig. 3, a plan of my completed improvement; Fig. 4, a longitudinal. section of the strip shown at Fig. 3 prior to the folding over of the binding-edge, and Fig. 5 a plan showing my improvement stitched within a corset.

Similar letters denote like partsin the several figures of the drawings.

l is the body-strip, within which and intersecting one edge thereof are the button-holes 2. The width of the strip is such that suffrcient margin is left at the uncut side of the said strip to enable said side to be folded on the dotted lines at Fig. 1, to constitute an end bar to the button-holes, as will be presently set forth.

3 are edge-binders notched at 4. The distance which separates these notches is equal to that between the button-holes 2, and said vided with binders;

Serial No. 296,670. (No model.)

binders are inserted laterally within two 11 eighborin g bu tton-h oles, so that the notches 4 abut against the closedcnds of the buttonholes, while the ends of the binders project up through saidholes, said ends being then folded upon themselves and stitched to the strip, as shown at Fig. The side of the strip is now folded, as above set forth, and stitched to the body of the strip, in order to constitute a bar at the closed ends of the button-holes. The barring at the open ends of the button-holes is effected by the plies 5 6 of the garment within which the strip is stitched, as shown at Fig. 5.

I do not strip, or to such strip having button-holes pronor do I claim, broadly, the combination of sad strip having buttonholes provided with binders with a continuous edge-binder; also, I WlSh to be understood as disclaiming the broad feature of a continuous abutment for the buttons extending along the free margin of the strip transversely to the button-holes and over the same.

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The herein-described button-hole strip, consisting of a body-strip having cut therein button-holes, one end of the latter intersecting the inner edge of said strip, in combination with the edge-binders having notches in one side abutting against the closed ends of the button-holes, the ends of said binders being doubled and secured to said strip, and the outer edge of the latter being folded down across the closed ends of the button-holes and then secured to the strip, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY IV. LYON.

Vitnesses:

S. S. WILLIAMsON, J OHN J. Dnvrr'r.

lay claim, broadly, to the body- 

